Spending Per Year Of Life Gained - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2023
News

Toward a Life Well Lived

Illustration by Valerie Chiang Illustration by Valerie Chiang In many states, you’re required by law to get your car inspected annually, and if there’s something wrong, you get the car serviced, says Professor Leslie Perlow. But how many of us bring that level of... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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The Sixth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS - MBA

East and North Africa South America United States 09 Feb 2023 The Sixth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS Admissions Staff Author MBA Admissions tag Consumer Packaged Goods Environment Short... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

2022 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads The Year in Review After a tumultuous two years of figuring out how to adapt and thrive in the face View Details

05 Sep 2017
News

Living the Quantitative Life

got older, he turned that hunt inward, started using a simple spreadsheet to manually track his behavior, keeping tabs on the amount of time spent exercising, sleeping, commuting, gradually expanding into include everything from his car's... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

A Life by Design

Klein. At each stop, she gained new knowledge and experience while advancing her own reputation as a change agent capable of leading a company to growth through new product design. Ross’ entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

27 Mar 2019
News

Life Is a Startup

about, say, the allocation of roles and decision making, and applying them to his life. For Wasserman, the meeting was revelatory. Anyone—founders or not—could gain all these profound View Details

28 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

Remote Workers Spend More on Housing. Do They Deserve Higher Pay?

To executives expecting to save on office space when some employees continue working remotely post-pandemic: Not so fast. Makeshift desks and kitchen tables have sufficed for many people working from home to avoid COVID-19. However, permanently remote workers tend to... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

13 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores

something they could do themselves. Or they may not recognize that, say, spending more on rent to live closer to work could put them in a better state of mind. Swapping money for time might be especially... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Nov 2015
Blog Post

What to Expect During Your Second Year at HBS

of HBS while keeping my head above the proverbial water. And just like that, everything changed my EC year – the training wheels were off! Suddenly, there were so many choices: what courses to take, what... View Details

15 Dec 2015
News

The Year in Ideas 2015

communication technology that works with the same cellular spectrums that telecommunications companies use. Since that first experiment four years ago, Project Loon has improved balloon steerability, connectivity, and stamina—the balloons... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

01 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Five Lessons From My First Year at HBS

environment. I’ve learned so much, I’ve been challenged and pushed outside of my comfort zone, and I’ve grown in ways that I could not have imagined. Here are 5 lessons I’ve learned from my first year at... View Details

11 Aug 2015
Blog Post

From Britain to Boston: Two Years at HBS

Each year, HBS sends a new class of freshly minted MBAs out into the world. Before the Class of 2015 embarked on their next adventure, we took the opportunity to chat with some View Details

03 Aug 2017
Blog Post

“I Can Acquire Important Skills, But Also Gain the Big Picture Perspective of a Founder.”

opportunity for me to apply and see in real life some of what we learned in the Field and FGI courses – the challenges of working in unfamiliar environments.” Rahil’s... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

27 Apr 2017
News

Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World

help veterans gain the skills they need to thrive in civilian life and to continue their mission of serving others,” says York. Tabitha Strobel (MBA 2018) (photo by Susan... View Details

29 Sep 2015
Blog Post

5 Leadership Lessons from the First Year at HBS

The first few weeks of the first year at HBS can certainly be overwhelming: meeting 900 new people, learning how to prepare for cases and how to jump in at the right time in class, managing an influx View Details

December 2020
Article

Stock Market Returns and Consumption

By: Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani and Kaveh Majlesi

This paper employs Swedish data containing security level information on households' stock holdings to investigate how consumption responds to changes in stock market returns. We exploit households’ portfolio weights in previous years as an instrument for actual... View Details

Keywords: Capital Gain; Dividend Income; Consumption; Near-rational Behavior; Investment Return; Household; Spending; Behavior

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21 May 2024
Research & Ideas

What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year

dissatisfaction. In Italy, it’s a matter of scarce resources. In Brazil, it is the perception of or actual corruption. How do both create openings for far-right movements? Rettl: In the Italian case, there... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

January 2010
Case

Opportunities in Business and Life after Virgin Money: Asheesh Advani

Asheesh Advani is in an enviable position for a successful entrepreneur: he has sold his business and is trying to decide what to do with the next phase of his life. For the first two years after selling CircleLending—a pioneer in the person-to-person lending field—to... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Investment; Managerial Roles; Personal Development and Career